Wunderlich Securities recently raised the price target for Approach Resources Inc. (AREX:NASDAQ) by $3 to $41, to reflect updates the company made to its mid-year reserves estimate of 66.8 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe).

Recently approved new rules governing activity in West Virginia’s portion of the Marcellus shale have become too pro-industry, environmental groups charge.

Investors are trained by analysts and management to talk about oil prices when looking at energy stocks. But that’s a misnomer; a mistake even—especially in the United States, where the hydrocarbon geology is deeper and gassier than Canada.  And natural gas is worth a lot less than oil. Investors sadly pay...

Investment bank Raymond James stated on September 28 that it was maintaining its Outperform rating for exploration and production company Kodiak Oil and Gas (KOG:NYSE).

Chevron Technology Ventures, a division of Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (CVX:NYSE), demonstrated its new solar energy product on October 3, according to a statement.

Excess capacity in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System could provide a means for developing oil existing in Alaskan North Slope shale formations.

These Statistics Show A Surprising Oil Hotspot Brewing in America Guess which American oil play will show the largest increase in production the next two years?  That’s right, I said increase. The Bakken? Permian? Niobrara? Well, defying all expectations of analysts and investors alike, it’s likely to be the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), with production...

With all of the attention that has been focused on the Bakken in North Dakota and the Marcellus shale in the Mid-Atlantic, it is easy to forget that California is one of the top oil producing states in America.